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    Solaris Gains ONE Muscle

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    Peter Galli
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    December 23, 2002
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      Sun Microsystems Inc., seeking ways to add value to Solaris and give enterprise users more choice, has embarked on an ambitious plan to build all its Sun ONE software components into its flagship operating system.

      The strategy, code-named Project Orion, according to sources close to the company, will take all the components of the Sun Open Net Environment software stack, including application, directory and portal servers; clustering; and other technologies, and integrate them into Solaris over the next few years.

      In a departure from its usual mode of operation, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will also include Sun ONE on hardware running Linux and on non-Sun hardware. In addition, Sun will amend its software pricing model to be based on usage, instead of stand-alone pricing for each product, officials confirmed with eWeek last week.

      “I have to do some out-of-the-box things that I havent done before,” said John Loiacono, vice president of Suns operating platforms group. “ONE is getting on multiple platforms, supported on multiple platforms.”

      To that end, Loiacono said the company will support Solaris and Linux, even though all Linux versions are not yet standardized, on non-Sun systems. “Sun owns the intellectual property all the way up the Sun ONE stack; our value proposition is that we can ship our Linux or Solaris distribution with all of it included, and the customer pays only for what they use,” Loiacono said. “If a customer is looking for an affordable solution on low-end hardware running Solaris or Linux and with the integration already done upfront, we will be able to provide that.”

      Customers would also get exactly the same software whether they were running Solaris or Linux on SPARC or Intel Corp. hardware, he said.

      Customers welcomed the plan as necessary for Suns survival. Alan DuBoff, president of Software Orchestration Inc., a consultancy in San Jose, Calif., said it would make sense for Suns customers. “Application servers are fast becoming a much-needed entity in the enterprise, and making Suns app server part of Solaris makes it worthwhile to pay a license for Solaris,” DuBoff said.

      “My customers and I would be willing to pay to use individual software components as long as the price is the same or less than if it was bought separately. It simplifies system configuration,” said Tim Sagstetter, president of Kernel Software Inc., in Wausau, Wis.

      Suns Loiacono said the first wave of Solaris integration will likely involve the directory server, followed by the portal and identity servers.

      Once the Sun ONE software is added, the focus will turn to integrating the components more tightly with one another. Some of this technology will be delivered in future Solaris 9 updates, Loiacono said.

      Sun is working on the pricing models. “The platform edition of our application server in Solaris 9 is already free, the directory server is free for the first 200,000 entries, and the portal server will be priced in a similar fashion,” Loiacono said. “The intent is to have customers receive every piece of software, integrated into the system, and then pay for what they use.”

      DuBoff said that the Sun architecture does not tie users into any specific components, which could easily be replaced with another vendors product. For instance, Sun last week agreed with BEA Systems Inc. to bundle a trial version of the WebLogic application server, even though it competes with Sun ONE.

      “The bottom line is that people appear to want more open solutions,” DuBoff said. “Solaris customers dont necessarily want to convert to Linux, and if Sun can provide them with that compatibility layer, I believe many will stay on Solaris, as they will be able to retain their current investments.”

      Peter Galli
      Peter Galli has been a financial/technology reporter for 12 years at leading publications in South Africa, the UK and the US. He has been Investment Editor of South Africa's Business Day Newspaper, the sister publication of the Financial Times of London.He was also Group Financial Communications Manager for First National Bank, the second largest banking group in South Africa before moving on to become Executive News Editor of Business Report, the largest daily financial newspaper in South Africa, owned by the global Independent Newspapers group.He was responsible for a national reporting team of 20 based in four bureaus. He also edited and contributed to its weekly technology page, and launched a financial and technology radio service supplying daily news bulletins to the national broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which were then distributed to some 50 radio stations across the country.He was then transferred to San Francisco as Business Report's U.S. Correspondent to cover Silicon Valley, trade and finance between the US, Europe and emerging markets like South Africa. After serving that role for more than two years, he joined eWeek as a Senior Editor, covering software platforms in August 2000.He has comprehensively covered Microsoft and its Windows and .Net platforms, as well as the many legal challenges it has faced. He has also focused on Sun Microsystems and its Solaris operating environment, Java and Unix offerings. He covers developments in the open source community, particularly around the Linux kernel and the effects it will have on the enterprise.He has written extensively about new products for the Linux and Unix platforms, the development of open standards and critically looked at the potential Linux has to offer an alternative operating system and platform to Windows, .Net and Unix-based solutions like Solaris.His interviews with senior industry executives include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux operating system, Sun CEO Scot McNealy, and Bill Zeitler, a senior vice president at IBM.For numerous examples of his writing you can search under his name at the eWEEK Website at www.eweek.com.
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